Israel Elections

Likud sets July primaries while Netanyahu weighs impact of candidates on election outcome

According to a knowledgeable source, Netanyahu has come to terms with the idea of primaries, meaning that he is not currently working to cancel them.

|ByANNA BARSKY
Likud lawmakers react as they attend a 40 signatures debate, at the plenum hall of the Knesset, in Jerusalem, December 8, 2025
A plenum session at the assembly hall of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, May 27, 2026.

As Israel inches closer to elections, will the region see a silver lining, or concern? - analysis

Countries across the region will closely watch which parties are on the rise in Jerusalem over the next few months.

|BySETH J. FRANTZMAN
Ra'am party head MK Mansour Abbas.

Netanyahu’s coalition moves to ban Ra'am from future elections over terror links - report

The initiative stems from a legal battle to designate the Southern Faction of the Islamic Movement in Israel, Ra’am’s parent movement, as a terrorist organization.

|ByASHER SMITH
MK Galit Distal-Atbaryan arrives to a Likud party meeting at the Knesset. December 3, 2023.

Likud MK Galit Distel-Atbaryan says she will not run in party primaries, next Knesset elections

Before her current role, Distel-Atbaryan held the position of Israel’s public diplomacy minister, which she resigned from one week after the October 7 massacre.

|BySHIR PERETS

Will the Ukraine War end in 2023?

MIDDLE ISRAEL: 2022 will be remembered for the blows it dealt Russian imperialism, Western populism, and Iranian Islamism.

DECEMBER 23, 2022ByAMOTZ ASA-EL
UKRAINE’S PRESIDENT Volodymyr Zelenskiy awards a Ukrainian service member at a position in the frontline town of Bakhmut, in Donetsk region, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, on December 20.

Israel's Netanyahu has multiple battles ahead to regain control

INSIDE POLITICS: Benjamin Netanyahu had a tough time forming an Israeli coalition. He still has multiple political challenges ahead.

DECEMBER 23, 2022ByTAL SHALEV
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU has formed a government but it will not be one that is easy to manage.

Jpost at 90: Inside an Israeli newsroom on Election Day

Ninety years after The Jerusalem Post newspaper was launched, how would its founder view coverage of Election Day 2022?

DECEMBER 2, 2022BySTEVE LINDE
‘THE JERUSALEM POST’ newsroom: active and interesting.

Israel's US friends need to stop worrying about election results - opinion

Israel is in no great moral existential danger. We have not become a nation other than what you believe or aspire us to be.

NOVEMBER 18, 2022ByDOUGLAS ALTABEF
Far-right Israeli lawmakers Itamar Ben Gvir, center, and Bezalel Smotrich, right, attend the swearing-in ceremony for the new Israeli parliament, at the Knesset, or parliament, in Jerusalem, November 15, 2022.

Israel's Netanyahu sets Wednesday deadline for gov’t formation

Likud, Otzma Yehudit find common ground as talks to form a new government continue

NOVEMBER 17, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Israeli designate Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during the swearing-in ceremony for the new Israeli parliament the 25th Knesset in Jerusalem, November 15, 2022.

Zehava Galon to resign as head of Meretz after election downfall

Meretz earned 3.14% of the vote, below the electoral threshold of 3.25%. It needed just 3,800 more votes to pass that line.

NOVEMBER 17, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Head of the left wing Meretz party Zehava Gal-On leaving after a meeting with Labor leader and Transportation Minister Merav Michaeli and Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid at Lapid's home in Tel Aviv on September 10, 2022.

The Israel we know is not the Israel Thomas Friedman knows - opinion

Thomas Friedman’s much-forwarded New York Times lament for Israel’s soul – “The Israel We Knew is Gone” – has demoralized the Jewish world.

NOVEMBER 16, 2022ByGIL TROY
ISRAEL IS more than Smotrich-Ben-Gvir – much more, says the write

Moving forward after the elections -opinion

Israelis, Zionists and friends of Israel need to move forward in a healthy way. The Israeli people have voted and expressed their preferences.

NOVEMBER 13, 2022ByURI PILICHOWSKI
PRESIDENT ISAAC Herzog receives the official election results from Supreme Court Justice Isaac Amit, chairman of the Central Elections Committee, on Wednesday.

Outgoing Israeli gov't approved $2m plan to bridge gap with Reform Jews - report

Israel's $2.3 million plan to improve its image among Reform and Conservative Jews could be struck down by Netanyahu's presumptive government.

NOVEMBER 12, 2022ByASAF ELIA-SHALEV/JTA
Sixth & I Historic Synagogue in Washington, D.C.

How Netanyahu made his comeback with help - opinion

After so many years with Netanyahu in Israeli politics, every Israeli has formed a firm opinion of him: a large majority loves him, and a significant and very vocal minority hates him.

NOVEMBER 11, 2022BySRULIK EINHORN
TEN MINUTES before the 10 p.m. exit poll announcements on election night, Benjamin Netanyahu and advisers, including the writer (standing center), consult and anticipate developments.